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Shooting at the Family Research Council

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 15th, 2012 at 02:48 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

The Family Research Council is one of my favorite organizations. I consider Tony Perkins a friend and he and his staff are in my prayers today, as they should be yours. A gunman entered the building this morning, took issue with the work FRC does (no motive is known other than the gunman uttering a complaint about what FRC does), and began to shoot. A security guard was shot in the arm, but managed to get the shooter down.

It is not a political statement, but a fact that for years the left inside and outside the media has ridiculed the family values the Family Research Council defends. It is not a political statement, but a fact that had this been at an abortion clinic or the Human Rights Campaign’s headquarters instead of the Family Research Council’s headquarters, we’d be in for a week of handwringing in the media about homophobia and right wing nuts. But because the Family Research Council promotes the values shared by a majority of Americans, but only a minority of the left in and outside the media, this story will move on off the radar.

Instead, the Human Rights Campaign, which aggressively supports gay rights, will go on calling the Family Research Council a hate group, which it did the day before the shooting, the media will give the shooting a passing reference, and it will all be forgotten until Brian Ross and ABC News can figure out a way to pin it on the tea party. Notes one nut on twitter, “a shooting at #FRC HQ was a long time coming. Though I’m surprised the #AFA wasn’t 1st. Hate begets hate. #NOH8 #Bigotry”

Ironies about in the “NOH8″ contingent. Here’s another one. And this one is from a social studies teacher.

The nut job leftist who took hostages at the Discovery Channel and this person are not worth as much attention as those who can be portrayed as right wing nuts because there are no lessons that can be learned about right wing extremism from today’s shooting or that mess when it happened.

In the same vein, Joe Biden saying the GOP wants to “put y’all back in chains” will be out of the news faster than if MItt Romney or Paul Ryan had said it because, again, it is not about values or speech, but about what the left, in and out of the media, presumes are the correct values and correct speech.

This is further typified by disgust at Chick-Fil-A for promoting traditional values, but delight with Ben & Jerry’s promoting “correct” values.

That’s not a political point. That’s a fact.

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  • reclaimit

    Read where he was carrying a bag from Chick-Fil-A. Sounds political, too, which is surprising because leftist usually don’t have the stomach for guns. Clearly a coward. And it doesn’t matter if some lawyers view the FRC as a hate group. So was the Klan. But in America, every group has the right to organize, and free speech is protected. Disagree or not with their message, I hope the left steps up and denounces this senseless and ineffectually violent act.

  • runner12

    They are proving what we have said about them all along. They are hate-filled and intolerant of anyone who disagrees with them and hypocrites of the worst kind.

    Calling FRC a “hate-group” is a joke. Being socially conservative does not make one a bigot nor a part of a “hate group.” What’s next? Calling all churches “hate groups”? These lefties are getting downright scary.

    My prayers for a swift recovery go to the security guard. He is a true hero and probably saved many lives.

  • reclaimit

    Lately, I hear more of us on the right calling for tolerance, when the left used to claim they were the tolerant ones. There is a very big difference between hate and believing that some people have chosen a life of sin. I don’t know anyone who “hates” homosexuals. But repulsion and rejection are not hate–they are simply judgments. They are free to do what the want within the laws, but don’t call it hate when we band together as a community and refuse to legitimize sinful unions. I am glad to see that some of these so called lesbian transsexual groups (LBGT?) are condemning this shooting, but if you go on Twitter you can find a bunch of paganists spewing anti-Christian rants. Typical.

  • Freiheit

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  • ihateliberals

    FOX News headline Said that a security guard was a hero. CNN at the same time merely said that the guard had been shot with no further information about the shooting but a story about the FRC and details about what it does.

  • cwfoster

    Liberal thinking kills people.

    This guy, liberal
    the guy in Aurora, liberal
    G. Loughner (AZ Giffords shooter) LIBERAL!
    Registering Democrat should automatically get you “adjudicated mentally incompetent” and disqualify you from purchacing a weapon.

  • pbeck

    ?The frustrating thing is that those who are attacking religion claim they are doing it in the name of tolerance, freedom and open-mindedness. Question. Isn?t the real truth that they are intolerant of religion? They refuse to tolerate its importance in our lives.?
    President Ronald Reagan

    Our 40th President is sorely missed.

  • proudmarinemom

    and, for its support, the FRC, are reminiscent of the pogrom in 1933. It really is chilling when one looks at the images of the Strumabteiling in front of shops and restaurants plastered with the words, “Kauft nicht in judischen Geschaeftan!”

    Very sad.

  • celador2

    Hitler and his NSDAP had a way of marginalizing and making Jews the butt of jokes and the root of all problems in culturally chaotic Germany after WWI when the currency crumbled and revolution rocked what was left. Joe Kenendy jr in the letters that survived describe how Hitler had managed to make the Jew the Other.Hitler had much control over instittutions that form and reinforce popular opinion from 1934 til end of war.

    The same is happening in dominant institutions in West and US. Liberal hate mongers at war with Christianity are portraying Christians who support marriage as the Other and thr root of most cultural problems. Southern Poverty Law Center labeled FRC a hate group. With institutional support from many churches, media, schools and some businesses reinforcing these views of Christians as hate mongers it gets more difficult to stand our ground without feeling much heat.

    SA, the Storm Troopers were happy to target Jews in 1920-1930s Germany just as their couterparts are today in US. They had institutional and governmetn backing. No free press stood in their way and most German citizens looked the other way.

    There is little outrage in the right however over the FRC attack which signals a distancing from criticizing the perp and his motives..

    Silence is deafening is it not from Romney to Boehner on down the line who at most are outraged at violence in general. No one really wants to take on the gay thugs face to face. for fear of the politics of personal destruction kicking in. Or maybe its inevitable that the thugs like SPLC and the anti Christian activists will control our cultural direction.

    Just as they did in Germany 1933, 1934, 35….